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County business: Nath’l Harris

29 August 1815 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

After a jury found Edward Harris mentally incapacitated, the court ordered his continued confinement without bail until further orders.

Kind of business
County business
Court
August 1815 term, 29 August 1815
People
Jurors
Richard Blackwood; Benjamin Cantrill; John Jolley; James Turner; Boston Sharp; Robert King; John Shaw; Richard Workman; Fielding Leathers; Lemuel Morgan; James Hart; Peter Riley
Other dates
twentieth day of July last past

Reading note: The clause describing Nath’l Harris’s testimony was partly illegible.

Names and places are given as the source writes them. This record has not been checked against the original minute book.

Where to find it

  • Minute book 9, page 87
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 1815 term
  • Original: State Archives of North Carolina, Orange County court minutes (CR.073.301).
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 30005, “County Court Minutes, 1815–1826” (State Archives film).
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